Chapter One
The Basis for Business Success
BE YOURSELF
Roger's career was at a standstill. He had been passed over for a
half dozen promotions in the last two years.
"I don't understand it," he said. "I come into the office early and stay
late. I make all my deadlines, even if I have to work nights and
weekends to do it. You'll never catch me huddled in the hallways
shooting the breeze with my colleagues or see me grandstanding at staff
meetings. I'm paid to do a job and I do it. I do it well. I'm smarter
and more productive than half the guys who started at the same time I
did. So why are they heading departments and up for vice-presidencies
while I'm stuck in limbo, doing the same things at the same level I've
been at for the past few years?"
Mark, an ambitious young editor, found himself in a similar
situation. However, he had begun to figure out why he wasn't zooming up
the corporate ladder as planned. "I know my stuff," he said. "I'm good
at what I do. But I'm a washout at office politics. Every time I turn
around I'm either saying ... read full excerpt from Lion's Don't Need to Roar ebook
